Czech rally news

[Coach 2]

Pontus is very well experienced factory driver with lot of experience in WRC and also some czech events.

I expect you to mean this sarcastic, not to inform me about who Pontus is and what experience he has.
But; It is often mentioned that some rally is very special (in comparison to some average?).
I would like to say that asphaltrally in ex-Czech Republic and Ireland is very special for northern Scandinavian drivers. The reason is because hwat we in Norway, Sweden and Finland call tele, tjele or tæle which means frozen ground. Because of this problem, small or relatively little used roads will always be dirt roads. When the "tæle" goes (melt and disappear), incorrect or poorly constructed asphalt roads will fall apart. When building asphalt roads, these will be relatively good and with good even asphalt everywhere. And in order to withstand the mentioned tele they will also be extremely expensive to build.
For this reason we have very few if any roads, similar to what we meet in, as previously mentioned, such as the Czech Republic or Ireland. It will also be very unfamiliar with several types of asphalt (with different grips) in one and the same stage.

[Michalin STR8]

Video Rally Hustopeče 2017:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGibZa7lpPQ&t

[Mirek]

On Saturday since 14:23 Rally Bohemia online: https://rally-base.com/2017/rally-bohemia-2017/

This time without me because I was invited to a wedding party.

[RS]

Watching the results from Bohemia, who is this Szeja guy? Haven't noticed him before but setting some very good times.

[Mirek]

Szeja is Polish. He used to drive gr.N Subaru last year. He is doing really good progress. Last event in Hustopeče he was actually ahead of Tidemand but went off a bit on the last stage under pressure from Pontus.

Pity this rally was mostly decided by weather on SS3 when it started raining in that way that Kopecký had the best conditions, Pech worse and every other driver even worse than that.

[Mirek]

Kopecký totally dominant. Great result for Szeja and also Kresta after three years long pause and first time with R5 car (just like many he lost over one minute on SS3 alone but he was 2nd fastest in 2nd leg alone). Rather bad rally for Jakeš who made several mistakes. Strange retirement of Dohnal. He run out of time due to being stopped by police on the road section. According to the rumors he was overtaking four cars in a row where overtaking is forbidden and one of those cars was disguised police one. Odložilík retired after a crash into chicane.

Kopáček retired on the last stage with electric problem from first place in gr.N. Březík therefore won again.

Mareš on his home event clearly fastest 2WD driver but who surprised nicely was Furuseth who finished 4th when he lost third only by 0,2 seconds on the very last city stage.

1. Kopecký (Fabia R5) 1:34:23,3
2. Pech (Fiesta R5) +1:09,5
3. Černý (Fabia R5) +1:37,0
4. Szeja (Fiesta R5) +1:45,7 (10 sec penalty)
5. Kresta (Fabia R5) +2:06,7
6. Jakeš (Fiesta R5) +2:57,1
7. Vojtěch (206 WRC) +3:07,1 (10 sec penalty)
8. Štajf (Fabia R5) +3:26,9
9. Tarabus (Fabia S2000) +4:20,7
10. Sýkora (Fabia R5) +4:58,4

SS wins: Kopecký 7, Szeja 2, Kresta 1, Černý 1

Onboards:
Kresta, SS7 (totally different stage than others with extremely fast sections): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt3Ro0ImMYY
Pech, SS8 (city stage): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGa2RWeGTmI
Kopáček, SS6: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUlhNoIrdEU
Szeja, SS1 (city stage): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXNObKMT_E8
Jakeš, SS2 (possibly the mot technical stage in our championship): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUr-Ub_jLUk

[Ucci]

Indeed, Kresta quickly found the rhythm.
BTW, are there any rumors about T.Kostka entering rally Barum??

[Mirek]

Afaik he wants to drive Barum (Kresta too).

[RS]

Szeja is a young guy? Certainly promising.

Also another quite good performance by Cerny, he should be a frontrunner in JERC U28 on Rzeszow and Barum.

Still waiting for Pech to gel with his Fiesta.. maybe it's not going to happen.

Surprised Skoda didn't put much effort into Bohemia this year. I know Tidemand and Veiby were busy in Poland but in the past we have seen them bring guys like Wiegand or Scandola IIRC.

[Mirek]

Szeja is 34, no young guy.

I just watched the onboards and the one of Kopáček is awesome. Take a look at least after 10:20 and 11:15. Worth watching!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUlhNoIrdEU